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[You've finally recovered from dragons and getting caught up in wind gusts? Wonderful, right on time for Miracle Country to mess around again. These days, when people start noticing shiny, unnatural feathers cropping up here and there, or small orbs of light doing the same, they might find itfamiliar, at least if they've been around for a while. Surely the residents who have lived through these previous things will be able to let them know what's going on...

Except it's not quite the same thing this time around. While, yes, these items hold memories from others in them, meant to be shared as they were before, it won't show a whole memory as if playing a video or seeing into a dream. No, this time around they're memories of emotions that are being held.

So what does this mean? When near or touching an orb belong to someone else, you will experience the emotion that the person in the memory is feeling. Is it a memory of a tragic event, transferring a feeling of grief, worry, or fear? Is it a memory of being with people you care about, transferring happiness and love? A memory you'd rather forget about, transferring embarrassment and self-doubt? You won't get the play-by-play of the memory when you touch it, but rather experience the emotional state of that memory. Whether you get context for that memory - understanding empathetically why that emotion is being felt and how concretely you get that context - is up to you.

The transferring of emotions can be mild (perhaps more suitable for truly terrible memories that would logically leave people with PTSD or completely emotionally drained), or stronger still (feeling the full extent and power of those emotions), depending on what everyone chooses to do. The transfer can also be more personalized, too. Maybe a memory recalls a day when one was a child, and they were scared of thunder, and so the person receiving it ends up jumping at loud noises and wanting to stay inside for a while. Maybe it's a memory about someone else - maybe Aramis can feel what it's like to love Alice, after being exposed to Porthos's memories of being around her. Or Stiles can feel unbearably proud of Arthur, after holding Merlin's memory of his coronation.

Will you realize that you're missing a memory? No, and it's already forgotten until the orb is returned to you via being felt by another person. Whether you forget the entire memory or just the feelings felt during that moment is up to you.

People will be shedding memories until Tuesday, and could lose memories more than once. Of course, losing them means they'll want to make sure to find them again, so simply ignoring these would probably not work too well. Especially for those who remember losing memories made people fade out once before...]

[So today's been a typical enough day for Porthos. School, having lunch with Aramis, hanging around, training a bit. You know, the usual. But things feel a bit off for him and he can't exactly place it - not realizing that he's lost memories and the emotions therein. He wouldn't be able to articulate what's up, regardless.]

This is ridiculous... [But maybe you found what he's lost?]

[Oooor, if you want him to be the one to find what you've lost, he'll of course be stumbling across memories that aren't his own. At first it'll be with goddamn confusion cause ... What the hell is that.

This one in particular is hanging out near the center of the shopping district, near the fountain. He's familiar enough with these things now to know to be wary of the floating, glowy thing but at the same time he's still curious, and concerned. If it isn't his own, it would be someone else's, right?

He's reaching out for it, of course. Is it yours? You might want to stop him or at least tell him what he's about to get into, if so. Or maybe you want to encourage him. He's pretty trustworthy with these kinds of things, after all.]

[He might run into Mako as he returns from work, grumbling to himself and looking annoyed. Which isn't so unusual for him, but rather than him being cranky in a sillier way, he looks quite serious this time. Something doesn't feel right and he can't pinpoint what it is, either.]

[Whenever he runs into Merlin later in the day, Porthos'll see him smile like a dope at him, and then turn very red and look embarrassed. In events that made Aramis fume with jealousy, he's gotten some of Aramis's own feelings regarding Porthos... and he can't shake the feeling off, even when understanding their origin. So he's feeling very dumb at the moment, help.]

[Bucky definitely shares Porthos' feeling of "this is ridiculous", because he's feeling strange, too -- lighter and yet wrong at the same time. But seeing one of the feathers lying on the ground is enough to clue him in to what's going on.]

Oh, no, you gotta be kiddin' me. [NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN. But remembering how the feathers would fade away, well, it's probably better just to get it over with... except what he gets hit when touching it is not seeing a memory, but rather feeling, suddenly and inexplicably, incredibly proud of what he does, of being a soldier, of being good at it... except what he feels being good at isn't sharp-shooting at all.]

[Well, perhaps someone might be able to tell him to avoid touching the orb, or tell him something about it-- but unfortunately, Matt can do neither as he can't exactly tell what it is near the fountain. Something is there, sure, there's the faint sound of air moving around it, but he can't tell what that something is... only that it's a cause for puzzlement for Porthos.

Of course, he says none of this -- instead, there's the steady tapping of his cane against the pavement as he walks closer, deliberately walking so that if he continues, he'll run straight into whatever thing there is floating in the air... unless Porthos tells him not to do it, of course. (He's counting on it-- hard to talk to someone when you're not really supposed to know they're even there.)]

Oh my god, those things again? You know, you'd think this place had more imagination. From dragons to this? They're so letting us down.

[Stiles is currently hovering behind Porthos to look over his shoulder at the glowing orb, arms crossed, looking way more casual about this than he actually feels. Because those orbs mean they're losing memories again and losing memories sucks.]

[In the midst of all the memory loss, here's some déjà vu: Sebastian stalking right up to a feather - Porthos', not that he knows - he's spotted, due wariness of magic glowy things be damned. The moment he spots the feather it all clicks into place - why he's feeling off, why the young master feels off, why the young master suddenly doesn't want anything to do with him... and Sebastian won't tolerate it. He'll turn the place upside down finding the relevant feathers if he has to.

[Yukine has seen her around looking a lot younger than usual. While he never had something like that happen to him, he's sure that it's not an easy thing to go through, more so when she goes back to her normal age. Seeing her so wobbly worries him a little, so he approaches her.]

[Should anyone be on the hunt for emotion memories, Arthur will be that loser who doesn't quite realize anything is going on just yet. He's working in the Flower Shop, doing all the manual labor things that Merlin could totally do with magic damn it Merlin making him work!1 that he usually does in the back room. But hey, maybe there are memories showing up amongst the flowers in the shop, hidden in the bouquets themselves. Or on the high shelves in the back where Arthur is busy shoving around bags of bark and fertilizer or whatever else flower shops have.]

[If he notices one, he'll be frowning at it forever before reaching out to grab it because that's how he rolls]

[So after about a day of this, Isabela is 1000% done. She doesn't know if she's lost things and, frankly, she doesn't care (yes she does), because she just wants this all to go away and carefully sweep it under the rug. Does she have memories missing? Probably, but she sure as hell doesn't want anyone else mucking around in her emotions. kthxbai

She's found one memory floating around outside The Bar and just. no. stop this. She's fashioned a fan out of paper and is currently flapping at the memory in an attempt to get it to move without having to touch it and therefore experience someone else's touchy-feely thoughts.

Just. No. She does not want to have to deal with this. She doesn't care if this looks stupid. Get it away.]

[In the middle of all the running around and wondering if you'll disappear or forget something permanently, there's someone who hasn't quite caught up to the current drama. Possibly because he has no idea of it.]

[Steven is standing in front of the permanenty blooming sakura tree in the park, staring up at it in absolute amazement.]

[It had been calm for too long after the dragons went away and the world went back to how it was. At least this time, Kiseki had taken pity on him and decided to not make him lose his memories this time, since it hadn't been too long ago that he had almost disappeared because of lost memories.

Imagine his surprise when he goes out, followed by his black cat, and sees the little orbs floating around. He can't help but remember his own experience through something similar, so he runs to the first person he can find to make sure they're not missing anything.]

[Ever since waking up, Freya had felt slightly... off. As if she was missing something but at the same time couldn't quite put the finger on what that was. She tried to brush it off as nothing and go to work as the Flower Shop thinking it would help her put her mind off whatever that was bugging her like that. It seemed to work well enough so she didn't notice one of the orbs floating nearby, near the flowers.]

[There's someone else that's new and hasn't noticed everything that was going on. This person was Pearl and, after a failed attempt to communicate with the Usyagi, she had set out to explore and hopefully find a way back to Beach City. There

had

to be a warp pad somewhere... There was no way that this was an unconnected planet, because if it was, how had she been brought there at all?]

[If going back to his normal age wasn't confusing enough, now Kija had to add the loss of some of his memories. He knew that there were gone, that there was something important missing. But how could he find them? There was also the fact that he had suddenly stopped feeling Shin-ah's pressence, which only made him feel more worried about everything.

So instead of doing his normal things, he was walking aimesly through Kiseki, trying to find out the memories he was missing.]

[Someone's uncharacteristically playing hooky today, quickly bored with the Latin lesson plans that Sebastian had drawn up for him. Ciel feels lighter, less burdened or driven somehow and decides- why not head down to the amusement park for a day of fun in the sun?

For part of the trip, there's a feather clinging stubbornly to the back of his Victorian coat in a parody of a chip on his shoulder. It drifts off at some point, maybe as he's passing you or possibly just laying on the ground after he's long gone. Either way, picking it up is a lottery draw between the most horrific feeling of hopelessness or the perfectly pure joy of a well-loved child.

Of course, he encounters a few memory orbs during his walk. He's already unimpressed by the floating orbs, mistakenly taking them for simple light fixtures (yes, it was great the first time around when the powers-that-be used them at that ball but let's get a bit more creative, all right?) but feathers? Those can be whittled into writing implements. So useful, that! Therefore, he'll be picking one up.]